Jonker presided over. A Traverse City police sergeant found Fitzgerald wearing his headset in the cockpit of a private charter plane he was hired to co-pilot from Traverse City to Bedford, Massachusetts , on August 25. Fitzgerald had told the sergeant he had not consumed alcohol since lunchtime the day before. "Aircraft are complex machines and intoxicated operation poses a danger to passenge... [Full Article...]

Washington announced a $110-billion U.S. sale of ships, tanks and the latest anti-missile systems to Saudi Arabia on Saturday as Trump began a two-day visit to the Gulf state before travelling on to Israel . He's also backed away from his campaign pledge to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem . The Palestinian president raised the issue of Palestinian detai... [Full Article...]

During a speech at NATO's new headquarters, Trump went on an off-script tangent in which he criticized North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies who he felt were not paying enough into the organization, despite the payments being set based on the individual country's domestic spending. [Full Article...]

Ferreira noted that "every video recording for which the Attorney General is charging David was obviously and unquestionably made in a public place where it could not possibly be considered 'confidential.' The only difference between David's conduct and that of undercover video journalists every day in the state of California is the fact that he recorded the political backers of the state's to... [Full Article...]

Greenberg and Hoenlein concluded: "This incident underscores the awful damage caused by serial UN resolutions , including UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (of December 2016), denying the more than three thousand years of the Jewish connection to Israel and the holiest sites in the Jewish religion, which the Trump Administration has said it will work to reverse". [Full Article...]

Padilla said 11 soldiers, two policemen, and 31 militants had been confirmed killed in the fighting, which has involved the military bombing buildings where the militants have been hiding. "We want to finish this problem as soon as possible". "On account of the doubts that had been expressed by many quarters, we also appeal to the public that should you see abuses on the part of those implementi... [Full Article...]

Reuters , citing seven current and former USA officials, also reported Friday that Kushner had previously undisclosed contacts with Russia's ambassador - including two phone calls between April and November of 2016. Reuters previously reported only Flynn's involvement in those discussions. The newspaper says Ambassador Sergei Kislyak told his superiors that Kushner proposed using Russi... [Full Article...]

Although the LIFG disbanded, Haroun says the father belongs to the Salafi Jihadi movement, the most extreme sect of Salafism and from which al-Qaida and the Islamic State group both hail. Suicide bomber Abedi was born in Britain to a Libyan family, grew up in Manchester's southern suburbs and once attended Salford University there. Home Secretary Amber Rudd was "irritated" by USA media's discl... [Full Article...]

Netanyahu said. "The raising of Israeli flags and removal of dozens of Palestinian flags will not change reality", the ministry said in a statement . They were joined by Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, as well as daughter Ivanka Trump and Kushner. Prior to the Manchester terror attack, Trump explained in his speech in Saudi Arabia that America alone "cannot crush this enemy". [Full Article...]

The former altar boy built the device at home with a £2 clock from Tesco after googling an al Qaeda article entitled Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom. CCTV footage of Smith showed him travelling on the Jubilee Line before leaving the train without the rucksack containing the bomb. Had Smith's bomb worked, it would have exploded just as passengers were being ordered off the platform, the ... [Full Article...]

Jail on Friday. He was captured at a Wichita motel late Thursday night after an employee recognized him and called police. Riley Co. Police issued an arrest warrant for Harris Wednesday on charges of murder and attempted murder. Brown has been described as possibly being in danger, after disappearing earlier in the week. After the tip from the hotel worker, officers spent the day searching for... [Full Article...]

In one of the lighter moments of his meeting with the U.S. president at the Vatican on Wednesday, Francis made an apparent allusion to Trump's imposing physical size. The White House believes that Trump has made personal breakthroughs with his peers, having now met one-on-one with all the leaders of G-7. Trump hit back by calling Francis's comments "disgraceful" for doubting his faith. [Full Article...]

Nonetheless, European Council President Donald Tusk indicated, there was less than a meeting of minds on trade and other issues, despite the cordiality of Trump's welcome. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at his closing news conference after the summit defended Trump's message, which he admitted was "blunt". Europe is the United States' largest trade partner and investor, Burns also com... [Full Article...]

The bodies of two men and wreckage from the aircraft were recovered from the sea following an extensive search. A major search was launched, with a coastguard helicopter and lifeboats dispatched to the scene. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is also conducting an independent safety investigation. "Tarbert, Southend and Campbeltown coastguard rescue teams, the UK Coastguard search-and-res... [Full Article...]

The White House , however, says the opposite. Shoes continue to drop in the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible connections to Russian Federation. Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of the senior advisers in the Trump administration, was seeking a private communications channel with the Kremlin, according to a new report in The Washington Post . [Full Article...]

A day before the summit, Trump criticized the German trade surplus as "very bad" in a private private meeting with European Union officials in Brussels . He will not be the only G7 newcomer. The meeting comes after the president told North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members Thursday in Brussels that they must "finally contribute their fair share", saying 23 North Atlantic Treaty Organ... [Full Article...]

McMonagle, one of Cosby's lawyers, said, per The Times . On Wednesday, prosecutors and the defense team also chose six alternate jurors, two of them black. Simpson trial, said "celebrity-obsessed" African American men could be ideal jurors for Cosby, especially if they'd watched or listened to trials involving celebrities. [Full Article...]

President Trump has taken an offensive approach in Europe, scolding some of the most loyal allies of the United States for not paying their fair share toward defense spending as North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members. To leave the Paris agreement itself, the USA would have to wait the minimum three years stipulated in its text. Pro-Paris Trump administration officials have been backed b... [Full Article...]

An additional 36 civilians remain unaccounted for, it said. Residents of the al-Jadida neighbourhood countered the Pentagon conclusions that there were two IS snipers in the house struck by the bomb and that secondary explosions caused by explosives packed into the house by the extremists were largely responsible for the high civilian death toll. [Full Article...]